For years, bail reform has been a political punching bag — blamed for crime, weaponized in elections, and filling news headlines. Recently, a conservative wave swept the country as voters shifted right, and tough-on-crime rhetoric took over. Many thought bail reform was dead, but it didn’t disappear. Instead, it evolved — this time with a […]
Author Archives: Lisel Petis
Lisel Petis is a former prosecutor and victim advocate, and a resident senior fellow for Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties at the R Street Institute. She wrote this for InsideSources.com.
